Day 210: For Dancing Again

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       An early start to the day that let me accomplish a lot of things.

2.       Finally being able to watch a movie today after a long time, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbai.’

3.       Finding things unexpectedly. I need to fill out a form and submit it, and I was going to take a print early tomorrow morning. While I was looking for a passport sized photograph that was required along with the form, I found a copy of the form neatly put in an envelope in my desk drawer!! Phew! Saved me about fifteen minutes worth of time in the morning! A few minutes later, I also found the photograph I was looking for. :D :D

4.       Dancing!! Man, I’m having fun! We’ve had four classes already and I’m thoroughly beginning to enjoy it. We did a routine that lasted about one and a half minute on ‘Imma Be’ by Black Eyed Peas. Now we’re working on another routine on ‘Take Your Shirt Off’ by ­T-Pain from Step Up 3 and I absolutely am in love with the song. It has happened to me before… we start dancing to a song and I fall in love with it. I have a lot of favourites that way!! :)

5.       Reaching level 60 at Café World.. Lame I know… But I’m just so excited about it that I thought it was worth mentioning!!! :D :D :D

Day 209: For Chocolate Milk Ice-cream

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Not sleeping the day off and waking up while it was still morning. Yeah… it is a BIG deal for me :P

2.       The cup of chocolate milk that froze. I generally drink my milk cold and with lots of chocolate in it. Because it wouldn’t be cold enough by the time I would be ready for it, my mother put the cup in the freezer and mentioned it to me a little too late. And hence, I had chocolate ice-cream. Yum!

3.       All the spongy and soft chapattis that I made yesterday.

4.       Another great good night conversation; which involved singing ‘In pin safety pin…’ somehow.. I don’t know how exactly, but I’m very sure it was sung... more than once. :D

5.       And… For sleeping early… just a few minutes past midnight and yes, that’s early for me!

Day 208: Old Memories

Today, I am thankful for…

1.       Having all the time in the world. Not really, but Sundays are generally lazy days and it seems like you have so much time on your hands. I just looooved the feeling.

2.       The awesome noodles that I had for snacks.

3.       My habit of saving souvenirs. I attach a sentimental value to everything; be it a letter, a book, a flower or even restaurant bills. I am crazy enough to save e-mails, chat conversations and text messages (thankfully, my phone has the capacity to save thousands of messages in its memory!) I knew I had a back up of my old phone’s messages somewhere on the computer and I found and read it! I had messages as old as 2005 in my phone – both sent and received. And it was really fun reading them!

4.       Being able to watch cool movies.. I saw ‘Hush’ Saturday night and ‘Prison Break – the movie’ today on DVD and ‘He’s just not that into you’ today on HBO. :D Happy!!!!

5.       A great conversation that had me reminiscing about old school and college days!!!

Day 207: For Writing Again...

Phew.. I'm doing this after sooooo long. It seems like ages since I wrote here!!!!!! Doesn't matter; I'm here now - again. So let me just get on with it!

Today, I am thankful for...

1.      Beginning to write here again. As I have experienced this before, not writing here has had some weird implications on how I feel and my mood and attitude in general. I don't know why I didn't start posting here immediately when I realised. But I guess a month long blogging break was also a little necessary. It wasn't a conscious decision to not blog; I just couldn't bring myself to do it even if I wanted to. That's all behind me now and I have been itching to write again. So here I am, in full swing, declaring those 5 things that've made me happy today (including this one :D)

2.      Dancing again. After April, I've joined dance class again. The only thing is that it's not as relaxing simply because this batch is style based. Given that I hadn't been dancing for almost four months I should've chosen Contemporary for this batch but I chose to learn Hip-Hop instead and right now, it just plain hurts!!! It’s just been three classes and I'm sure that after another week passes by and my body becomes accustomed to rigorous exercise again, I'll enjoy the class even more. For now, I'm just happy to listen to great music while we groove to it; and for the prayers at the beginning and end of each class.

3.      The wonderful songs that were dedicated to me over the phone; starting with Stevie Wonder’s ‘I just called to say I love you,’ ‘Chura liya hai tumne to dil ko’ from the movie Yaadon Ki Baarat; and believe it or not…. ‘Waka Waka’ by Shakira. :P

4.      Being able to go through the day without watching ‘Prison Break.’ Yeah.. I’m totally addicted to that show! I’m almost at the end of season 4 with the last seven episodes to go! :D

5.      The good things that have happened the past few days; you could call it family bonding. I have a phobia about jinxes, so I’m just going to leave it at that! :P

And Again....

I'm going to start posting from today...

I've got too many happy things to talk about!! :D :D :D

Day 160: For Holiday on a Weekday!

Today, I am thankful for…

1. Having another stretch of a looong sleep. Thanks to the All India bandh today, we had the luxury of staying at home on a weekday. Woo hoo!! :)

2. (I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I am also thankful for…) the yummy custards that my mother has been making every weekend (a whole big pot of it) for the past three weeks. And FYI, even though I have been gorging on the custard almost after every meal, I am not putting on weight!!! :P

3. Finally watching ‘Rock On.’ I know I sound very lame when I say that, but I led a pretty sad life back then (when the movie had released,) shuttling between attending classes, going to office and barely making it home on time that I missed out on loads of stuff. So when all my friends had gone to watch the movie the week it released, I was busy in office (probably verifying expense vouchers or bank statements and their reconciliation). I had time today, I had the DVD, I was in the mood and I watched it! Finally! And I quite liked it.

4. Finishing A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller and starting a new book, Dork by Sidin Vadukut. I’m quite proud of my reading record so far. I hope by the end of the year, the list shows at least 26 books (of course, after excluding the half read books.)

5. A wonderful good night conversation. Simply loved it! :)

Day 159: For a Perfect Sunday

Today, I am thankful for…

1. Being able to wake up later in the morning (it was afternoon by the time I actually woke up! :P)

2. Being invited to a nice lunch at Amit’s place. It was very sweet of his mom to actually prepare separate food for me just because I am a vegetarian and everyone else was having chicken. :)

3. Listening to music over earphones. Mine got ruined about six months ago and I haven’t had enough spare cash to squander over luxuries and I wouldn’t settle for anything but original Nokia earphones. Also, I am too proud to ask my parents for money. So I’m waiting it out and I’ll buy it the day I have some money to spare. So since then, listening to music while traveling has been just a dream. But today, when I was traveling with Vishal, he had his headphones, which I connected to my phone and we listened to music. My ears were thrilled!

4. A great Sunday evening with Sandeep. A little bit of McDonalds with a little bit of window shopping, a little bit of paani puri and kaala khatta gola, a little bit of roaming around and loads of things to talk about, was what my perfect evening was all about.

5. Knowing that even though tomorrow is the first working day of the week, we have a holiday!! Yay!

Day 158: For meeting friends

Today, I am thankful for…

1. Being able to wake up earlier than usual because of which I had to avoid rushing.

2. Being able to spend a extra little time dressing up since I was up earlier than usual.

3. Being able to spend some nice after-office time with my colleagues.

4. Being able to meet Jyothi and the others (although I fell asleep early since I had been up since so long!!!)

5. The awesome sleep for twelve hours that I got after a loooong time… after a whole week actually. :)

Day 157: For Name Calling.. :P

Today, I am thankful for…

1. Finding out that there might be an all India bandh on Monday which means that there’ll be a holiday (2 days at a stretch) and also that I can get up late!!! Whoa!! Awesome!! :)

2. The exchange of e-mails that have replaced phone conversations. Interestingly, today’s e-mail conversation began with (and entirely turned out to be about) witnessing the story of a rat that tried to hide itself inside a carton of toned milk and crows that were waiting for it to come out so that they could attack him. There was also a dog somewhere in the story and the main point of concern was the survival tactic of the rat… or something like that. Not something I would talk about in the beginning of the day, but I must admit I did find it cute and laughed a lot when I read it. I don’t know anyone else who’d express such concern for a street rat!! The whole e-mail reeked of compassion and I re-read it more than once. :)

3. Being called names that sound soooo cute. “Aye ghadhi” literally translated as “Oh donkey” and “tera sarr” meaning “your head” have never ever sounded so cute. And it’s as if I want to be called by these names. They’re not intended to be offensive, obviously. But even if they were, the way he says it, makes me forget that I’m being called an idiot! :P

4. Unexpected phone calls that lead to looong conversations when you realize you haven’t spoken in a really long time. Ashish called me yesterday and we spoke after soooooo long. What made me feel nice was not just the fact that I was speaking to him after a gap of about three months, but also a few things that he told me, that sort of provided encouragement. He said things like, he was happy about the decision that I’d made to follow my heart. He told me how he enjoyed reading what I wrote and that he could visualize what I wanted to convey. It made me feel so nice. Also he said that there were a few common friends who actually took time out of their work schedule to read my blog!!!!!! I couldn’t believe my ears. :) Also we spoke a little bit about both our career plans and gave each other suggestions. Oh… and it’s his birthday today!! So Happy Birthday Ashish!!!! :)

5. The nice and long walk that I took. I am all about being healthy and fit these days but I won’t achieve that by starving myself and looking all worn out. I eat really well but I compensate for that by getting any form of exercise, whether it is jumping and dancing around the house while music is on in the background (which as so far been the most relaxing form) or plainly walking long distances when I’m in the mood. So today, I walked all the way from my office till the railway station (which took almost twenty minutes) and then from Vashi station to class and back – 15 minutes each way (I had to meet Ma’am about something). I was so tired by the time I reached Nerul that I ended up taking an auto. But then the long walk was really good!! :)

Day 156: For Catching a Break...

Today, I am thankful for…

1. The fact that Natasha was at home. It seems like I haven’t seen her in ages even though we live in the same house. Our schedule for the past week has been such that I leave early in the morning while she is still sleeping. She leaves in the afternoon or early evening for her play rehearsals and by the time she is back (which is usually a little late for me) I am off to bed because I have to be up early. Sigh! What a week it has been!!

2. A musical evening. We celebrated the fact that we were both at home, together after a loooooong time by listening to music – very typical of us, really! :)

3. Being back home from office by seven in the evening. For the last two days, since I discovered that there is a bus from office that drops me right outside my house, I have been tempted to travel by it because it means not walking till the station to catch a train and then again not walking from Nerul station to home. But the bus takes more than one and a half hours. I sit in the bus around 6.10 and its past 7.45 by the time I reach home. And with the whole churning-in-my-stomach-as-soon-as-I-sit-in-a-bus that I’ve been experiencing these days, it’s just not worth it! I’d rather walk both ways, thereby getting some exercise and reach be home by 7, than sitting (un)comfortably in one place and reaching home late.

4. Knowing that once the busy season in office is over for someone, we’re going to have a great time!!!! :)

That’s all. Can’t think of for now! :)